Support for large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows.

So realistically yes, you should not have storage issues .

You're missing my concern...

MySQL might store the entire world, but GoDaddy will charge me an arm and a leg if I start storing Tera-Byes of old PMs?! :eek:

spikeZ said:

Keep all evidence of conversations and papertrails intact as you never know when they may be required.... just sayin.....

Yes, that makes sense.

And with that being said - combined with my fear of extra hosting costs - how much space do you PM's will take?

Any guestimates - or scientific ways to calculate - how many of my websites PM's will equate to, say 1 MB?

Right now things are Text-only, and PM's cannot exceed 1024 characters, and most of the fields in the tables in my OP are either "key" fields" or "timestamp" fields, so each record probably doesn't take up that much room.

Then again, beyond my storage concerns, allowing people to store all PM's from the beginning of time creates other work for me. For example, it would force me to have to add Pagination.